Dude, come on down! We're in the middle of second line season right now (Dumaine St. Gang S&P this week featuring the TBC and Lil Stooges Brass Bands, leaving from St Philip St & N Villere Sunday at 1pm). I missed the Indians last Mardi Gras, but it falls really late this year, so Super Sunday won't be but a couple…

This seems as good as anywhere to post this:

Tween peaks.

I feel like this might be an appropriate article to brag around for a minute.  I doubt I'll be buying this thing, though I think it looks phenomenally cool.  But when I do buy the season 5b box, it will sit on the shelf next to my piece of the burnt out superlab, my bill from Heisenberg's stash, my Pollos Hermanos…

The City of New Orleans begs to differ.  Rarely is there any reason to go to Walmart, but it helps that whenever I do, I can distract myself with the thoughts of sweet, sweet bounce videos.

I grew up in Birmingham and my old man grew up in Tuscaloosa, and was class of '72 at UA (I went to some sissy fine arts college elsewhere and live in New Orleans now.).  Despite all the hate evidenced here, I watched as much as I could at work tonight, don't feel it necessary to gloat, but definitely want to wander…

@avclub-1e2184e9a38acddfb65b66905ad70f9a:disqus , Marlon definitely has his moments.  Shawn, too.  Maybe I just have too much residual love for Don't Be a Menace, though.  Yeah, that's probably it.

FWIW, George Pelecanos just left Treme (we have two episodes left to film) to write for Boardwalk.  Really happy to hear some love for George here, and really excited what he's about to bring to Boardwalk.

Wait, your response is "Fuqua really got 'im and rightly so, 'cause it's been a long time since Spike made a good movie."  You do know who the fuck Antoine Fuqua IS, right?  King Arthur?  Shooter?  Tears of the Sun?  I'm sensing some serious cognitive dissonance here.

At the top of this thread, though, the line is drawn to differentiate between the factual and and the fantasy in Basterds (If I recall, and I apologize for not having a link handy, there were Jewish WWII vets who were absolutely incensed at the story presented in Basterds), but no one seems to sure about Django.  I'm…

I think the whole discussion is very interesting in its framing, basically insofar as everyone has accepted this movie that is at once brutal and in-your-face about the horrors of slavery while still playing as hugely cartoonish with aims for HUGE laughs from the audience, even though those two things seem directly…

I disagree and found it to possess a sadistic glee that provided nothing more than empty-headed fodder for when the revenge-bloodshed started.  One key back-and-forth of the discussions about Django is whether or not it provides valuable context for historical atrocities, or whether it's escapist revisionist history.…

We have a saying around the set:

We have a saying around the set:

So I've never smoked with Kermit, but if you spend enough Sunday nights at Kermit's Treme Speakeasy, you'll eventually hang with this guy for a night:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…
It's pretty awesome.

So I've never smoked with Kermit, but if you spend enough Sunday nights at Kermit's Treme Speakeasy, you'll eventually hang with this guy for a night:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…
It's pretty awesome.

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Galatoire's was in 307, the Mardi Gras day episode.  Toni Bernette goes to visit a judge or something.

Galatoire's was in 307, the Mardi Gras day episode.  Toni Bernette goes to visit a judge or something.